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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>May</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ YouTube still carries climate
disinformation - says CAAD
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<b>Climate Action Against Disinformation</b><br>
The Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition is a
growing and unprecedented effort of over 50 organizations committed
to addressing one of the largest barriers to addressing climate
change: misleading and false content that perpetuates false
narratives on our environment and dilutes productive conversations
on the climate. Executive Summary: <br>
<b>YouTube profits from ads on climate disinformation videos with
tens of millions of views</b><br>
· Researchers identified 200 YouTube videos containing climate
misinformation and<br>
disinformation with 73.8 million views in total as of April 17th,
2023.<br>
·The videos have all featured ads, and contained either outright
denial of climate science<br>
that violates YouTube’s existing policies or other forms of climate
disinformation.<br>
<b>YouTube is breaking its promise not to profit from ads on climate
denial content</b>·<br>
<blockquote>- YouTube’s policies state that ads are not permitted on
videos “contradicting authoritative<br>
scientific consensus on the existence of and causes behind climate
change”.<br>
· Researchers identified 100 videos breaching this policy that
have carried ads, with videos<br>
amassing a total of 18.8 million views. They included claims that:<br>
- “Every single model [the IPCC] ever have put out is wrong”.<br>
- “In summary, there is no link between CO2 and temperature”.<br>
- “Climate hysteria is just another rebrand, a Trojan horse for
anti-white<br>
anti- Western communist tyranny”.<br>
· Videos carried ads for brands including Costco, Politico and
Tommy Hilfiger.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>YouTube profits from more climate disinformation falling outside
its narrow definition</b><br>
<blockquote>· Researchers identified a further 100 YouTube videos
that meet the Climate Action Against<br>
Disinformation coalition’s definition of climate misinformation
and disinformation.<br>
·<br>
These videos have amassed a total of 55 million views and carried
ads from brands<br>
including Nike, Hyundai and Emirates.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>Google must stop profiting from climate disinformation on YouTube
and elsewhere</b><br>
<blockquote>· Repeated research projects by the Center for
Countering Digital Hate show that Google<br>
has repeatedly broken its promise not to profit from ads on
climate denial content:<br>
- Tests indicate that 63% of popular climate denial articles
still carry Google ads.<br>
- Google allowed Daily Wire to run ads on searches for “climate
change is a hoax”.<br>
- YouTube videos promoting climate denial with millions of views
still have ads.<br>
· Google must start enforcing its promise not to profit from
climate denial, on YouTube<br>
and on its other advertising platforms.<br>
· Google should expand its policy to cover other prevalent forms
of climate disinformation...<br>
</blockquote>
- -<br>
Researchers identified 100 videos that carry ads and contain climate
disinformation that<br>
breaches YouTube’s existing policies. In total, the videos have
amassed 18.8 million views<br>
and include ad-supported videos such as: <i>( warning --
disinformation videos )</i><br>
<blockquote>· - A video from the Timcast IRL channel that promotes
false claims that “The IPCC is just a<br>
corrupt industry, every single model they ever have put out is
wrong”. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/TUlud5hVQg8">https://youtu.be/TUlud5hVQg8</a><br>
· - A video from the The Heartland Institute channel that
promotes claims that “climate<br>
change science really isn’t a science at all”.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/v8dXpe1Pp6Q">https://youtu.be/v8dXpe1Pp6Q</a><br>
· - A video titled “Introduction to Climate Science” from the
Cutting Through The Noise<br>
channel, promotes the false claim that “there is no link between
CO2 and temperature”.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ln3Ou6jnc&t=2204s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ln3Ou6jnc&t=2204s</a><br>
· - A video from the Paul Joseph Watson channel that claims
“Climate hysteria is just another<br>
rebrand, a Trojan horse for anti-white anti-Western communist
tyranny”. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtqrBu7oaoU&t=349s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtqrBu7oaoU&t=349s</a><br>
</blockquote>
Some of America’s biggest brands were found to be running on the
videos, including Costco, Politico, and Calvin Klein.<br>
- -<br>
<b>Recommendations:</b><br>
<b>YouTube must stop profiting from climate disinformation</b><br>
This research shows that YouTube is failing to keep its promise to
stop profiting from climate<br>
denial, and is profiting from a wider range of climate
disinformation that falls outside of its<br>
existing, narrowly-defined policy.<br>
This is part of a broader failing on the part of YouTube’s owner
Google, which promised in<br>
October 2021 that it would no longer profit from ads containing
climate denial or from ads<br>
running on climate denial content.<br>
Existing research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate shows
that Google is also<br>
failing to keep this promise with respect to ads running on popular
climate denial articles.<br>
Analysis of widely-shared climate denial articles shows that 63%
still carry Google ads. <br>
Nor has Google kept its promise to stop running ads that directly
promote climate denial.<br>
The Center for Countering Digital Hate has found that Google
accepted $421,000 to run ads<br>
from the Competitive Enterprise Institute making claims that
“climate campaigners hype<br>
the risks of global warming”. <br>
The Center’s research has also revealed that Google allowed the
Daily Wire to run ads<br>
targeting users searching for phrases like “climate change is a
hoax” and “the climate<br>
change scam”. <br>
<b>1. Google must start enforcing its promise not to profit from
climate denial</b><br>
Every time Google is tested on its promise not to profit from
climate denial, it is found<br>
wanting. Whether it is ads on Google Search, Google ads embedded in
climate denial<br>
articles, or now ads running on climate denial videos on YouTube,
this promise is just not<br>
being kept.<br>
On hate, misinformation, and harms to children, we see tech
platforms repeatedly making<br>
promises that they do not keep. Platform policies only have meaning
if they are enforced.<br>
One year on from making its promise not to profit from climate
denial, Google must start<br>
enforcing it in a proactive and systemic manner reflective of its
size and available resources.<br>
If we can find this content, so can Google. <br>
<b>2. Google’s policy should cover the most popular forms of climate
disinformation</b><br>
Even if Google were adequately enforcing its policy on climate
denial, this covers just part of<br>
the broader category of climate disinformation. Our research shows
that videos promoting<br>
climate disinformation are racking up tens of millions of views
which are monetised with<br>
ads.<br>
To follow through on its ambition not to profit from content that
distorts public perceptions<br>
of climate science and undermines action on climate change, Google
should incorporate<br>
the full Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) definition of
climate misinformation<br>
and disinformation into its policies.<br>
<b>3. YouTube splits ad revenue with many channels hosting climate
denial content</b><br>
In some cases, YouTube splits revenue from ads displayed on a video
with the channel that<br>
posted it, reportedly handing 55 percent of revenue to the content
creator while retaining<br>
the remaining 45 percent. <br>
Analysis of code on YouTube’s website suggests that ad revenue
raised by 158 of the<br>
climate denial videos analyzed by this report were shared with the
channels that posted<br>
them. Further detail on our methodology for this finding is
available at the end of this report.<br>
While all videos analyzed by this report have at some time carried
ads, YouTube removed<br>
ads from just eight videos during the period in which our research
was conducted. This<br>
included two videos that were flagged with YouTube directly, and
another six videos that<br>
the platform acted on independently<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf">https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf</a><br>
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<i>[note]</i><br>
“Google is supporting the climate disinformation they say they want
to stop,” Friends of the Earth Climate Disinformation Spokesperson
Erika Seiber added. “Disinformation persists because it’s
profitable, and Big Tech needs to remove that incentive. Their
business model relies on user engagement at the expense of the
truth. Since Big Tech can’t answer the call from researchers and
advocates for full transparency and accountability, lawmakers need
to mandate it.”<br>
<br>
Google’s failure to demonetize climate disinformation is not just an
issue of corporate hypocrisy: It undermines the very future of human
civilization on this planet. Climate disinformation is a direct
threat to climate action, and Google must do its part to stop making
it profitable to spread false claims about climate change."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf">https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ opinion -- SCOTUS playing with fire ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Supreme Court move could spell doom
for power of federal regulators</b><br>
Conservatives get the chance to use a dispute over fisheries to
deliver the final blow to Chevron deference.<br>
</font> By JOSH GERSTEIN and ALEX GUILLÉN<br>
05/01/2023 <br>
A legal doctrine long despised by conservatives for giving federal
regulators wide-ranging power is making yet another march to the
gallows at the Supreme Court.<br>
<br>
The high court announced Monday that it is taking up a case squarely
aimed at killing off the nearly-four-decade-old precedent that has
come to be known as Chevron deference: the principle that courts
should defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous
provisions in congressional statutes and judges should refrain from
crafting their own reading of the laws.<br>
<br>
Overturning the doctrine would have major implications for the Biden
administration’s climate agenda. It would complicate the
administration’s efforts to tackle major issues such as climate
change via regulation, including possibly derailing the
Environmental Protection Agency’s push to mitigate carbon emissions
from the electricity and transportation sectors — the two highest
polluting industries in the United States.<br>
<br>
The Supreme Court’s move is another signal that the court’s
conservatives have not tired in their efforts to weaken the
administrative state. The top target is the case that played a
pivotal role in expanding the powers of federal agencies after it
was handed down in 1984: Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense
Council.<br>
<br>
The Chevron doctrine has “been in a coma for a while, so we’ll see
whether they want to revive it or take it off life support,” said
David Doniger, who in 1984 argued that case before the Supreme Court
for the NRDC...<br>
- -<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Planet Critical -- the future will be far
more difficult - make a different plan ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>The Unsustainable Green Transition |
Simon Michaux</b><br>
Planet: Critical<br>
Apr 19, 2023 #climatecrisis #minerals #politicalcrisis<br>
You can’t go green without going small.<br>
<br>
Our fossil-fuelled economy is destabilising the planet. But a
renewable economy might not be much better. Simon Michaux and his
team at the Geological Survey of Finland have been researching how
much minerals and materials we have on earth to build our
renewable energy. They’ve found that we simply do not have
enough—and mining for those materials would bears a huge
environmental cost. <br>
<br>
On this episode, Simon walks us through the research, the possible
outcomes from calculated energy contraction to collapse, what
policymakers are doing with this information, and how the
geopolitics of the US-China proxy war could make the green
transition impossible for the West. <br>
00:00 Intro<br>
02:25 The Minerals Shortage<br>
06:24 Ideology vs Reality<br>
07:59 The Mining Problem<br>
13:10 The Energy Problem<br>
19:54 Are policy makers listening?<br>
23:34 Renewables are Underperforming<br>
32:40 The Energy Storage Problem<br>
37:53 The Battery Problem<br>
43:20 Engineering society to cope with variable power<br>
48:08 Dangerous dependence on US and China<br>
52:06 Who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?<br>
58:35 The Currency War<br>
01:00:34 US vs EU<br>
01:06:56 The Resource Balanced Economy<br>
01:15:19 Shaping Reality With Stories<br>
01:19:02 Four Paradigms of Future Society<br>
01:24:39 Shrinking the Technosphere<br>
01:29:32 Who would you like to platform?<br>
🔴 Simon Michaux: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.simonmichaux.com/">https://www.simonmichaux.com/</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Respected older folks, hold forth in
discussion in a long established YouTube program ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Episode 555 Global Town Hall Apr 2023</b><br>
ToSaveTheWorld<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Peter Wadhams describes the
extraordinary heating of the Arctic ocean now -- up by 13 degrees!
-- and the fact that the scientists cannot explain it, so they
tend not to talk about it as much as the shocking facts would seem
to require. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, summary, and
comments:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-555-global-town-hall-apr-2023/">https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-555-global-town-hall-apr-2023/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-555-global-town-hall-apr-2023/">https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-555-global-town-hall-apr-2023/</a><br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/SXYdMorfNwM?t=3252">https://youtu.be/SXYdMorfNwM?t=3252</a><br>
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<br>
<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Blogger John Green promotes hope.
Tells-all interview ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>John Green
Doesn’t Think the World is Ending (Yet) | Offline With Jon
Favreau</b><br>
Pod Save America<br>
Apr 16, 2023 Offline with Jon Favreau<br>
John Green (@crashcourse & @vlogbrothers), bestselling author
and YouTuber, joins Offline to share lessons from his most recent
book, The Anthropocene Reviewed. His collection of essays rates
historical events, philosophical musings and personal anecdotes on
a 5-star scale that, these days, feels both inescapable and
indispensable. The Jo(h)ns talk through the faults in these stars,
and the importance of finding ways to live meaningfully and
hopefully in a world of mixed reviews.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">CHAPTERS</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">0:00 - Intro </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">1:40 - John Green joins!</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">6:40 - The dangers of the internet </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">19:48 - Ad Break</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">22:38 - Doomerism online</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">33:20 - Ad Break </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">33:40 - Why John writes for younger audiences</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">44:57 - Why is Twitter tanking?</font><br>
</blockquote>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Anthropology reading - "Shamans are the
last to go" ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Monika Kaup: Indigenous
Eco-Apocalypticism - The Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce
Albert</b><br>
Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies<br>
May 2, 2023<br>
Monika Kaup: Indigenous Eco-Apocalypticism - The Falling Sky by
Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert<br>
CAPAS - Lecture Series Summer 2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=306X9S61-hU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=306X9S61-hU</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
disinformation attacks]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>May 3, 1999</b></i></font> <br>
May 3, 1999: Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler debunks an April 15,
1999 column by Washington Times columnist Ben Wattenberg falsely
suggesting that NASA scientist James Hansen viewed Vice President
Al Gore as an alarmist on climate change. In addition, Somerby
notes:<br>
<br>
"Of course, if spinners like Wattenberg get their way--and the
larger press corps never speaks up--those common sense steps [to
reduce carbon pollution] may never be taken. And reasoned debate,
in the coming campaign, could give way to a lot of hot air. So
that’s why we offer a global *warning*, against believing facile
spin from these types. There’s a whole lot of hoo-hah floating
around concerning Gore and [his views on] global warming. And we
hope that the press corps will get off its duffs, and bring some
clarity to the whole sorry mess."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml">http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml</a><br>
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